sister's birthday party

[cimorene]

dad:  three people are coming, one of whom is not sarah.
me: :looks confused:
dad: i mean three of whom are not sarah.

while lillian and her three adorable friends saw the lemony snicket film mom and i saw (oh fuck i can't find the carrots on this american keyboard)

i wonder if this is what many people mean when they say an 'arty' film.  i found it literary--the repetition and much of the dialogue, which felt sort of artificial, too smooth and pat--theatrical, which makes sense since it was a play.  i really liked that about it.  i like the theatrical and the literary, so that makes sense.  clive was so beautiful in his bare feet, and he's lost some weight.  it was actually a very aesthetic film, now i think of it.  everyone was beautiful.  i'm not sure, but i may even have liked natalie's blond wig better than her pink one.  and i loved many of the lines, and they (among other things) reminded me of a kind of fiction and fanfiction i like.

Comments

[vellum.livejournal.com]

carrots?

i felt the major problem with closer was the editing. the first one i remember is law and portman talking about law's ex-girlfriend, and he says something about her name being ruth. right after that, we cut to a shot of julia roberts, so i thought, oh, that's ruth, and we're in the past. but no, that's anna, and we're four months in the future. the entire movie didn't let you know where you were timewise.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the things you use to make html tags. i call them carrots. they're pointy.

i think it was deliberately confusing, as literature often is. especially since it made such a HABIT of it.